The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas considers the United Nations' sponsoring of the Global Congress of Victims of Terrorism an opportunity to confirm that our Palestinian people, land and holy sites are victims of the most dangerous and longest ongoing terrorist occupation in the world for more than seven decades.

This occupation resulted in about a hundred thousand Palestinians martyred, hundreds of thousands injured, more than a million detained, millions of displaced Palestinians and refugees. These facts tell stories of the unbearable suffering the Palestinians have been experiencing due to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

With holding the Global Congress of Victims of Terrorism, the United Nations is called upon to recall the ongoing tragedy the Palestinian people have been going through across occupied Palestine and in the diaspora and shall shoulder its responsibility to hold the Israeli occupation’s leaders into account for their ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people, land, and sanctities.

The United Nations must also stand by the Palestinian people’s just cause and support their legitimate right to resist until liberation and return. 
Jihad Taha
Hamas spokesperson